Late Father's Saxophones
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My father recently died aged nearly 81.
From his university days at Cambridge to his late 60's he played semi pro jazz, mainly big band stuff but his passion was really modern Jazz.
He has left behind a fairly large collection of quality saxophones(mid war onwards) of various types: soprano, baritone, tenor, altos plus a few clarinets.
Does anyone have any advice on how best to dispose of them? Specialist auctions or dealers?
Many thanks.
Oh , there's also a huge collection of modern Jazz records too ranging from late 50's onwards to late 70's.
cheers
Loskie
From his university days at Cambridge to his late 60's he played semi pro jazz, mainly big band stuff but his passion was really modern Jazz.
He has left behind a fairly large collection of quality saxophones(mid war onwards) of various types: soprano, baritone, tenor, altos plus a few clarinets.
Does anyone have any advice on how best to dispose of them? Specialist auctions or dealers?
Many thanks.
Oh , there's also a huge collection of modern Jazz records too ranging from late 50's onwards to late 70's.
cheers
Loskie
Interesting as my mum is a saxophonist, with a huge collection of saxophones and other instruments, she has a few years left in her but I've often wondered how both me and my sister would dispose of them when she meets her maker.
Her instruments collection must be worth 10's of thousands.
Her instruments collection must be worth 10's of thousands.
I still have my late wife's collection of instruments. Saxophones, clarinets, flutes. I will take the best flute to her father next time I am up that way. The other instruments I intend to loan to her nephews and nieces should they wish to learn. If I ever get time, I might try to learn myself.
brass instruments are funny, as they're quite expensive and the market is pretty much beginners, and then high end. I'd get in touch with a local brass shop or repairer, get an idea of what you've got, use that to gauge value (they may also know people who are looking for such instruments).
Records are a different beast and you either need to list each separately to maximise value (but risk getting left with the unloved stuff) or again, get in touch with a specialist and sell for less but also less hassle.
Records are a different beast and you either need to list each separately to maximise value (but risk getting left with the unloved stuff) or again, get in touch with a specialist and sell for less but also less hassle.
meehaja said:
brass instruments are funny,
Saxophones are Woodwind 
loskie said:
I will need to catalogue what there is as a starting point I guess. Not really being interested in them I know very little. Mum tells me one ( Alto I think) is a Selmer mk4 which I believe is fairly valuable. Not sure what the tenor is.
The Selmer will be worth something for sure I think the Selmer Mk6 is the holy grail though!?!I'd just ebay everything to be honest.
Records you can look up on Discogs what everything is worth and sell it there.
OP you need to do a bit of research like most musical instruments value depends on manufacturer / rarity / year / condition and even history. I'm a guitarist but same applies to my guitars.
This Mk iV for example is on reverb for £3600 and change.
https://reverb.com/item/4478885-selmer-mark-iv-alt...
I don't know if a sax has a model name and or serial number on it somewhere but I think you need to start there and dig around on the net for comparison. Then when you have a rough idea go and speak to some specialist shops.
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